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...done to forestall a rolling back ((caused)) by too abrupt an advance." Thus, at recent party and government meetings, Gorbachev placated conservatives by fending off a challenge to the party's "leading role," at the same time soothing radicals by indicating that communist primacy is necessary only during "the present complex stage...